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Headland Data
Start-Up
Founder
3/2025 - Present
• Fractional Chief Data Officer
• Data Governance Framework and Roadmap
• AI Readiness
• Data Tooling, Cost and Vendor Management
• Team Organizational Design
• Data Health Check-up
• Data Governance Framework and Roadmap
• AI Readiness
• Data Tooling, Cost and Vendor Management
• Team Organizational Design
• Data Health Check-up
Brooke's Backyard
Start-Up
Owner
1/2022 - Present
• Grow peppers, make delicious hot sauces in small batches
BRAINPOP
Engineering
Head of Data Engineering
1/2021 - 4/2025
• Hired and built the data engineering team
• Established and implemented data governance and certification programs to ensure highly available, reliable, secure and actionable data for the company
• Set data strategy for the company, including choosing tools, warehouse platform and data designs
• Led the redesign of the new data warehouse in Snowflake
• Ensure vendors contracts under my purview are at or below budget: Snowflake (67% of budget), Fivetran (84%), Monte Carlo (flat) and Looker (flat)
• Established company data erasure policy and coordinated with the legal team to ensure compliance with GDPR/CCPA and myriad state-specific student privacy regulations
• Ensure stakeholders across the company understand data needs and that we deliver on those needs on time
• Established and implemented data governance and certification programs to ensure highly available, reliable, secure and actionable data for the company
• Set data strategy for the company, including choosing tools, warehouse platform and data designs
• Led the redesign of the new data warehouse in Snowflake
• Ensure vendors contracts under my purview are at or below budget: Snowflake (67% of budget), Fivetran (84%), Monte Carlo (flat) and Looker (flat)
• Established company data erasure policy and coordinated with the legal team to ensure compliance with GDPR/CCPA and myriad state-specific student privacy regulations
• Ensure stakeholders across the company understand data needs and that we deliver on those needs on time
Glassdoor
Engineering
Data Engineering Lead, Consumer products
1/2019 - 1/2021
• Managed a team of 5+ data engineers in support of all company verticals focusing on Consumer
• Designed and developed a novel User-oriented data architecture to support cohort-based research and analysis of churn, retention and life-time value of users
• Designed and developed 'GlassView', a POC to index and make searchable all data dependencies and provenance of data in the Glassdoor data ecosystem. Used python, Airflow, a Docker container for ElasticSearch, and several open source tools
• Designed and developed 'DataMove', a set of tools used to move data from our production environment to a test environment to make development easier in the DE team.
• Gathered requirements, designed and developed Airflow DAG to build and deploy the Covid-related reviews content used on Glassdoor main site
• Designed, built and maintained ETL and reporting pipelines and data models for petabyte scale big data applications in Airflow + Hadoop
• Helped establish best in class data quality, gove
• Designed and developed a novel User-oriented data architecture to support cohort-based research and analysis of churn, retention and life-time value of users
• Designed and developed 'GlassView', a POC to index and make searchable all data dependencies and provenance of data in the Glassdoor data ecosystem. Used python, Airflow, a Docker container for ElasticSearch, and several open source tools
• Designed and developed 'DataMove', a set of tools used to move data from our production environment to a test environment to make development easier in the DE team.
• Gathered requirements, designed and developed Airflow DAG to build and deploy the Covid-related reviews content used on Glassdoor main site
• Designed, built and maintained ETL and reporting pipelines and data models for petabyte scale big data applications in Airflow + Hadoop
• Helped establish best in class data quality, gove
STITCHER
Start-Up
VP, Data
1/2018 - 1/2019
• Data Team lead
• Owned all information systems (MySQL clusters, data warehouse (Redshift), data pipelines (Airflow), search, recommendations, machine learning (User clustering))
• Hands-on work included building and refactoring search, recommendation, and the subscription system powering the Stitcher Premium product
• Set and executed engineering and product roadmap with other members of leadership team
• Coordinated with executives and team leads across business units to ensure data needs are understood and met
• DevOps and DBA vendor management
• Owned all information systems (MySQL clusters, data warehouse (Redshift), data pipelines (Airflow), search, recommendations, machine learning (User clustering))
• Hands-on work included building and refactoring search, recommendation, and the subscription system powering the Stitcher Premium product
• Set and executed engineering and product roadmap with other members of leadership team
• Coordinated with executives and team leads across business units to ensure data needs are understood and met
• DevOps and DBA vendor management
STITCHER
Start-Up
Sr. Director of Engineering
1/2016 - 1/2018
• Backend Platform lead
• Hired data team, mobile team and automotive team
• Assisted in M&A and due diligence for acquisition by Scripps
• Hired data team, mobile team and automotive team
• Assisted in M&A and due diligence for acquisition by Scripps
STITCHER
Start-Up
Director of Engineering
1/2014 - 1/2016
• Data Team lead
• Assisted in M&A and due diligence for acquisition by Deezer
• Lead developer for overhaul of production data infrastructure (from bare metal MySQL to Continuent) and data pipelines (cron/perl to Airflow/python)
• Developed and executed growth plan for engineering and data teams
• Designed and built Stitcher Premium subscription system
• Refactored search system (Lucene to ElasticSearch) for scalability and accuracy
Director of Engineering (2014 - 2016)
• Assisted in M&A and due diligence for acquisition by Deezer
• Lead developer for overhaul of production data infrastructure (from bare metal MySQL to Continuent) and data pipelines (cron/perl to Airflow/python)
• Developed and executed growth plan for engineering and data teams
• Designed and built Stitcher Premium subscription system
• Refactored search system (Lucene to ElasticSearch) for scalability and accuracy
Director of Engineering (2014 - 2016)
Stitcher, Inc.
Engineering
Director of Engineering
1/2012 - 1/2014
• Built pipeline to stream catalog updates into Deezer systems
• Built podcast search facility in Deezer using ElasticSearch
• Developed analytics & reporting system in Deezer environment
• Migrated all big data computing from Stitcher into Deezer
• Contributed to deep learning projects on audio files
• General podcast technical consultation
Director of Engineering (2012 - 2014) Stitcher, Inc., San Francisco
• Responsible for all information systems (metrics, production infrastructure, recommendations, search, user and partner statistics, warehousing and administration)
• In Q2 2013, refactored search product using Lucene for improved availability, precision and recall
• In 2014, developed and implemented new Data Warehouse environment including data pipeline using ELK and the analytical environment using Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, Redshift
• Data team recruitment & management
• In Q2 2013, refactored recommendations product for improving quality and scalability
• In Q4 2012
• Built podcast search facility in Deezer using ElasticSearch
• Developed analytics & reporting system in Deezer environment
• Migrated all big data computing from Stitcher into Deezer
• Contributed to deep learning projects on audio files
• General podcast technical consultation
Director of Engineering (2012 - 2014) Stitcher, Inc., San Francisco
• Responsible for all information systems (metrics, production infrastructure, recommendations, search, user and partner statistics, warehousing and administration)
• In Q2 2013, refactored search product using Lucene for improved availability, precision and recall
• In 2014, developed and implemented new Data Warehouse environment including data pipeline using ELK and the analytical environment using Elasticsearch, Redis, S3, Redshift
• Data team recruitment & management
• In Q2 2013, refactored recommendations product for improving quality and scalability
• In Q4 2012
Stitcher, Inc.
Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
1/2009 - 1/2012
• Responsible for all company metrics, reporting, data architecture and database administration
Data Leader and Entrepreneur 20311 Foothill Drive Monte Rio, CA
● • Led development of recommendation engine using Myrrix
• Led development efforts for award winning Android application
• Redesigned production database system for scale
• Developed the first podcast/automotive integration with Ford Motor Company
• Developed podcast search system
• Developed automated reporting suite and dashboards
Data Leader and Entrepreneur 20311 Foothill Drive Monte Rio, CA
● • Led development of recommendation engine using Myrrix
• Led development efforts for award winning Android application
• Redesigned production database system for scale
• Developed the first podcast/automotive integration with Ford Motor Company
• Developed podcast search system
• Developed automated reporting suite and dashboards
Arcus Associates, LLC
Data Science / Analytics
Owner
1/2005 - 1/2009
Principal Consultant providing data consultation, analytics, visualization and governance. Client list included Charles Schwab & Co., Wells Fargo, Yahoo! Research, SolutionSet, Extra Small Records, TV Colony, iSound & others